{"id":1584,"date":"2015-06-27T20:56:13","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T21:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=1584"},"modified":"2015-06-28T14:37:23","modified_gmt":"2015-06-28T15:37:23","slug":"by-royal-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=1584","title":{"rendered":"By Royal Appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shariff\" data-title=\"By Royal Appointment\" data-info-url=\"\" data-backend-url=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/plugins\/shariff-sharing\/backend\/index.php\" data-temp=\"\/tmp\" data-ttl=\"60\" data-service=\"gft\" data-services='[\"googleplus\",\"facebook\",\"twitter\",\"info\"]' data-image=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSCF1393-2.jpg\" data-url=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=1584\" data-lang=\"en\" data-theme=\"color\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\"><\/div><p>I had planned to spend last night in a Travel Lodge on the M6 Motorway to break the journey from London to Hatton.\u00a0 But everything changed. when I was near Birmingham.\u00a0 I got a phone call telling me that the hotel was overbooked and did I mind transferred to a Travel Lodge in central Carlisle?\u00a0\u00a0 They dogs seemed to have no objection, so I said yes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSCF1393-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1590\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSCF1393-2.jpg\" alt=\"DSCF1393-2\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSCF1393-2.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSCF1393-2-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSCF1393-2-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was quite a different Travel Lodge to what we are used to.\u00a0 Indeed it looks as if it had a Royal Appointment.\u00a0 I did hear that the Queen is having to move out of Buckingham Palace to allow renovations to take place, but I am not sure she will be expecting to stay at Carlisle Central Travel Lodge, even if it has King &#8211; Sized beds.<\/p>\n<p>A quick search on the internet confirmed my suspicions that the building was actually a former Telephone Exchange &#8211; hence the EIIR on the wall beside the door.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSCF1394-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1591\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSCF1394-2.jpg\" alt=\"DSCF1394-2\" width=\"667\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSCF1394-2.jpg 667w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSCF1394-2-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSCF1394-2-624x936.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had planned to spend last night in a Travel Lodge on the M6 Motorway to break the journey from London to Hatton.\u00a0 But everything changed. when I was near Birmingham.\u00a0 I got a phone call telling me that the hotel was overbooked and did I mind transferred to a Travel Lodge in central Carlisle?\u00a0\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-further"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1584"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1592,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions\/1592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}